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The most shocking thing you've witnessed at your workplace?

  • 11-07-2012 11:21AM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,845 ✭✭✭py2006


    Obviously without mentioning where you work and names of those involved.

    What is the most shocking thing you have witnessed in your current or previous work places?

    Has somebody been fired unfairly or perhaps somebody got somebody else fired by their lies?

    They say if you knew half of what goes on in the kitchens of a restaurant you would never eat out again.

    I recall working in a certain fast food restaurant when I was in my teens and saw lots of burgers picked up off the floor and placed back into buns! :eek:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,707 ✭✭✭pablohoney87


    Electricity ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    I have to pay 15 cents for a cuppa.





    No fair :mad:


  • Posts: 5,464 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    A couple (in business) came to our place for a meeting.
    After they'd gone i'd found a used condom on the floor of the toilet.

    What's shocking is i hate having a **** in there, letalone thinking about riding someone in there. (it stinks)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭Immaculate Pasta


    One colleague, a sixty year old man, proceeding to batter another colleague, a late twenties female, after she goaded him about not meeting his sales targets. I worked in a retail bank. I was thankful there were no customers in at the time as it would probably would have made the news.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 126 ✭✭Fritzl Funderland


    Work


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 149 ✭✭bhovaspack


    One of the top hotels for weddings, entire tray of about 100 freshly made sandwiches to be served as midnight soakage fell onto the kitchen floor. They were promptly picked up, put back together, sliced into triangles and served to the guests.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,344 ✭✭✭Littlehorny


    One colleague, a sixty year old man, proceeding to batter another colleague, a late twenties female, after she goaded him about not meeting his sales targets. I worked in a retail bank. I was thankful there were no customers in at the time as it would probably would have made the news.

    I hope the bollox got the beating of a lifetime for that, ****in prick!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,999 ✭✭✭Conall Cernach


    I didn't witness this one but the guys that work here swear it's true. The foreman was wondering where "Jimmy" was and went to look for him. He found "Jimmy" at the back of the workshop having a **** into a plastic bag.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,654 ✭✭✭cruiser178


    A dozen roof trusess coming crashing towards me, couldn't walk for 2 weeks. Seriously scary sight, thought i was fcuking dead.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22 davidgrn


    The stuff that comes out of the coffee machine.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31 StevenGerrard


    I have to pay 15 cents for a cuppa.





    No fair :mad:

    TBH id find that under the seat of a chair :)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,536 ✭✭✭Stiffler2


    uploading porn onto other people's computers that you don't like, then send an anonymous email to your manager telling them what you saw as you walked past.


    easiest way to get someone fired



    muhh aa haa hahahhaahahahahahahahahahahah


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,707 ✭✭✭pablohoney87


    TBH id find that under the seat of a chair :)
    Who wants to drink tea you find under a chair? Sure its free bit id rather pay the 15c


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 330 ✭✭mongdesade


    The 'overpaid professional suit wearers & meeting attenders', walking around the place doing fúck all else except making the real workers lives a misery :mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31 StevenGerrard


    bhovaspack wrote: »
    One of the top hotels for weddings, entire tray of about 100 freshly made sandwiches to be served as midnight soakage fell onto the kitchen floor. They were promptly picked up, put back together, sliced into triangles and served to the guests.


    Did You Report The Hotel for a breach of Food Safety Standards ?:(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 199 ✭✭ukonline


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    Why isn't somebody saying "Yore Ma"?

    :confused:

    -


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 353 ✭✭yizorselves


    Stiffler2 wrote: »
    uploading porn onto other people's computers that you don't like, then send an anonymous email to your manager telling them what you saw as you walked past.


    easiest way to get someone fired



    muhh aa haa hahahhaahahahahahahahahahahah


    Post smells of bullsh1t


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,689 ✭✭✭Tombi!


    Used to work in a cinema.

    Common ones were: used condoms, people having sex, guys getting bjs, kids getting drunk and being almost impossible to wake up.


  • Posts: 5,464 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    ukonline wrote: »
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    Why isn't somebody saying "Yore Ma"?

    :confused:

    -

    Because that's a paddlin'


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,536 ✭✭✭Stiffler2


    Post smells of bullsh1t

    odd - how can you smell a post ??
    All my posts are to be considered fact


    & that's a FACT


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Ever see Mr Bean where he mixes up the bathroom door and the hall door and becomes locked outside in the hall naked?

    Doesn't just happen on TV, happened plently of times when I was hotel night porter

    We had phones up in the corridors.
    Get the call, I'm locked out and I'm hiding in the emergency exit
    Oh well, I have to run up with my master key


    One night some guy stood on the balcony while naked and started chatting away with the bridesmaids in the lobby chairs below who chatted back.
    Jaysus, he must be the most confident man in Ireland to chat to ladies like that


    Ran upstairs with my key, here Sir, follow me, back to your room


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45 Kwack


    I have seen some mad things in my time! Was working with a fella who claimed to be in the IRA. He told me he had a gun with a 300 MILE scope...I tried to explain that not only is there no gun on earth that powerful(not even close) but the curvature of the earth alone means it would be pointless...he didn't take it well. First he was telling me he had guns in his car then (after a few days of me and others laughing at him) he threatened me that he would get the RA to shoot me.
    Working in a supermarket years ago there was a Scottish guy doing security(mental b*****d) and one day when a customer asked him why is is doing cartwheels(literally) he headbutted this 50+ year old woman!
    Another time was working in a place with a bunch on animals(not literally). More than once the toilet got blocked but instead of the person unblocking it themselves or at least getting someone to do it they ignored it and the person after then took a dump on their dump and so on and so on until by the end of the day the whole toilet was full of tp and poo..... not a pretty site....
    Have loads more but needs to do some work...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    The biggest dump I have ever seen lying in the bog, twas like Gary Coleman's twin!!! Must have been a week's worth of dinners in it! No way was it gonna flush and no way was I using that cubicle!

    I actually felt sorry for the cleaning lady knowing what lay in store for her :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Grew up on a farm
    Over the years have seen a 5 legged lamb and a 6 legged lamb
    You'll call BS but I'm not lying, if you have thousands and thousands over the years then just on percentages you will see it.

    One died and the other was killed but otherwise was very healthy
    You see this in newspapers every now and again, it definitely happens

    Best Sunday dinners you ever had? :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,651 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    ukonline wrote: »
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    Why isn't somebody saying "Yore Ma"?

    :confused:

    -
    That's the why.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    Myself and a group of students studying for a computer degree got a tour of several of the large IT companies who wanted to hire us directly after we did our exams.

    One of the companies we got a tour of was IBM. At the time, they provided tech support to the US market, so our early morning visit was actually the 'out of hours' period...hence the place was fairly empty. The few staff there were a bit surprised to see us.

    Anyway, this manager was showing us around, and wanted to give us a quick look at the Employee Recreation area. So, she opened the door to let us have a peek in. Cue a stunned and embarrassed look on two love birds getting down & dirty on the sofa.

    Suffice to say...we all applied to work at IBM. We really liked the employee recreational services.

    13 years later, I'm still there, but haven't been offered sex in that area yet. So disappointed. :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 199 ✭✭ukonline


    El Weirdo wrote: »

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    Great! Down with that sort of carry on, I say.

    :D

    -


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Ex-national/international footballer doing something bad and highly illegal a number of times.
    (Sorry, I'm deliberately being vague for legal reasons and no, I'm not saying who it was).

    Seen employers beating staff.

    Seen other shocking stuff - but outside of employment so would not be applicable to theme of thread.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,031 ✭✭✭Feisar


    Work in construction which seems to be the last bastion of non political correctness. An older foreman got a laptop and was going trough the usual with the basics in Excel etc. One of the lads put a tube site porn video going and left it running. The foreman comes back with people for a meeting. Que much cursing and fumbling, funniest being when he closed it and the sound was going.

    Other than that an acro prop, basically a large lump of metal, falling ten floors and landing beside a man.

    First they came for the socialists...



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 77 ✭✭msbusterpuss


    kfallon wrote: »
    The biggest dump I have ever seen lying in the bog, twas like Gary Coleman's twin!!! Must have been a week's worth of dinners in it! No way was it gonna flush and no way was I using that cubicle!

    I actually felt sorry for the cleaning lady knowing what lay in store for her :(

    I think we work in the same building:mad:


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